Phnom Penh: Cambodia’s prime minister urges military to be governed myanmar To reconsider the death penalty against four political opponents, suggesting that executing them would attract strong international condemnation and complicate efforts to restore peace in the conflict-torn nation.
Hun Sen’s letter on Saturday to Myanmar’s ruler, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, added to the concern and protest around the world over the intention to kill four people involved in the struggle against the military regime. A copy of the letter was obtained from Cambodia’s foreign ministry.
Hun Sen wrote that “with deep concern and sincere desire to help Myanmar achieve peace and national reconciliation, I wish you more State Administrative Council (SAC) to reconsider the sentence and refrain from carrying out the sentence of death awarded to persons anti-SAC.”
The letter is unusual because Southeast Asian governments rarely issue statements that could be considered critical of each other’s internal affairs. Hun Sen himself has a reputation as a leader who has been willing to adopt authoritarian methods to stay in power for 37 years. However, Cambodia’s 1989 constitution abolished the death penalty.
A Myanmar military spokesman announced on 3 June that Phyo Zeya Thaw, a 41-year-old former legislator from the ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s party, and Kyaw Min YouA 52-year-old veteran pro-democracy activist, known as Ko Jimmy, will be executed for violating the country’s anti-terrorism law.
Spokesperson Major General zo min tun Said that the decision to hang the two, along with two other men convicted of killing a woman, was made after their appeals against the decision of their military court were dismissed.
No date was announced for the planned execution.
Myanmar’s military seized power from Suu Kyi’s elected government in February last year, sparking widespread peaceful protests that soon turned into armed resistance, and some UN experts in the country characterized as civil war. tripped out.
Hun Sen has a special interest in Myanmar as Cambodia presides over the 10-member Association of Southeast Asia Nations this year, ASEANto which Myanmar is concerned.
ASEAN has sought to play a role in promoting an end to violence in Myanmar and providing humanitarian assistance there. But Myanmar’s military has failed to cooperate with ASEAN plans.
Cambodia’s Foreign Minister Prak Sokhon is ASEAN’s special envoy to Myanmar, but Hun Sen has publicly expressed pessimism about Myanmar’s success in dealing with generals.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called for the dropping of all charges against those arrested for exercising their fundamental freedoms and rights, and the immediate release of all political prisoners in Myanmar.
On Friday, two UN experts strongly condemned.
“The illegitimate military junta is providing the international community with further evidence of human rights abuses as it prepares to execute pro-democracy activists,” said a statement issued by the Special Envoys on Human Rights in Myanmar Thomas Andrews and Morris Tidball. ” Special rapport on binge, extrajudicial summary or arbitrary execution.
“The death sentence, awarded by an illegitimate court of an illegitimate junta, is a despicable attempt to create fear among the people of Myanmar.”
He also noted that the military is already accused of carrying out extrajudicial killings of nearly 2,000 civilians.
Aid for Political Prisoners, a non-governmental organization tracking murders and arrests, said on Friday that 1,929 civilians have been killed by security forces. It said that 114 others have been sentenced to death.
Western governments have also flouted the death penalty.
Myanmar’s foreign ministry on Monday rejected such criticism, declaring that its judicial system is impartial and that Phyo Zeya Thaw and Kyaw Min Yew were found guilty and sentenced to death “because they are innocent civilians”. He was proved to be the mastermind of planning full-scale terrorist attacks against him. To create fear and disrupt peace and stability.”
Hun Sen’s letter on Saturday to Myanmar’s ruler, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, added to the concern and protest around the world over the intention to kill four people involved in the struggle against the military regime. A copy of the letter was obtained from Cambodia’s foreign ministry.
Hun Sen wrote that “with deep concern and sincere desire to help Myanmar achieve peace and national reconciliation, I wish you more State Administrative Council (SAC) to reconsider the sentence and refrain from carrying out the sentence of death awarded to persons anti-SAC.”
The letter is unusual because Southeast Asian governments rarely issue statements that could be considered critical of each other’s internal affairs. Hun Sen himself has a reputation as a leader who has been willing to adopt authoritarian methods to stay in power for 37 years. However, Cambodia’s 1989 constitution abolished the death penalty.
A Myanmar military spokesman announced on 3 June that Phyo Zeya Thaw, a 41-year-old former legislator from the ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s party, and Kyaw Min YouA 52-year-old veteran pro-democracy activist, known as Ko Jimmy, will be executed for violating the country’s anti-terrorism law.
Spokesperson Major General zo min tun Said that the decision to hang the two, along with two other men convicted of killing a woman, was made after their appeals against the decision of their military court were dismissed.
No date was announced for the planned execution.
Myanmar’s military seized power from Suu Kyi’s elected government in February last year, sparking widespread peaceful protests that soon turned into armed resistance, and some UN experts in the country characterized as civil war. tripped out.
Hun Sen has a special interest in Myanmar as Cambodia presides over the 10-member Association of Southeast Asia Nations this year, ASEANto which Myanmar is concerned.
ASEAN has sought to play a role in promoting an end to violence in Myanmar and providing humanitarian assistance there. But Myanmar’s military has failed to cooperate with ASEAN plans.
Cambodia’s Foreign Minister Prak Sokhon is ASEAN’s special envoy to Myanmar, but Hun Sen has publicly expressed pessimism about Myanmar’s success in dealing with generals.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called for the dropping of all charges against those arrested for exercising their fundamental freedoms and rights, and the immediate release of all political prisoners in Myanmar.
On Friday, two UN experts strongly condemned.
“The illegitimate military junta is providing the international community with further evidence of human rights abuses as it prepares to execute pro-democracy activists,” said a statement issued by the Special Envoys on Human Rights in Myanmar Thomas Andrews and Morris Tidball. ” Special rapport on binge, extrajudicial summary or arbitrary execution.
“The death sentence, awarded by an illegitimate court of an illegitimate junta, is a despicable attempt to create fear among the people of Myanmar.”
He also noted that the military is already accused of carrying out extrajudicial killings of nearly 2,000 civilians.
Aid for Political Prisoners, a non-governmental organization tracking murders and arrests, said on Friday that 1,929 civilians have been killed by security forces. It said that 114 others have been sentenced to death.
Western governments have also flouted the death penalty.
Myanmar’s foreign ministry on Monday rejected such criticism, declaring that its judicial system is impartial and that Phyo Zeya Thaw and Kyaw Min Yew were found guilty and sentenced to death “because they are innocent civilians”. He was proved to be the mastermind of planning full-scale terrorist attacks against him. To create fear and disrupt peace and stability.”